Posted on 11/09/2022 4:27:23 AM PST by MtnClimber
As vote counts continue to be posted, it is clear that Republican hopes and dreams of a huge wave election have been dashed. Instead of a large House majority and solid control of the Senate, Republicans will be lucky to have small majorities in each chamber, and even that outcome is not secure at this moment.
But in one state, Florida, Republicans have triumphed in tsunami-like proportions. With 98% of the vote counted, Marco Rubio has a 16.4% landslide lead over Senate challenger Val Demings, and Governor Ron DeSantis has a 19.4% lead, a gigantic increase over his fraction of one percent squeaker victory 4 years ago.
It’s going to take some time to figure out why the rest of the country isn’t behaving like the Sunshine State, but 3 factors suggest themselves.
Ron DeSantis displayed gutsy leadership in confronting Covid, enduring taunts as “DeathSantis” and far worse, as he refused to cower before the might of Dr. Fauci, the medical establishment, Big Pharma, the media, and Democrat politicians. As a result, Florida prospered as other states closed down their businesses and schools. (The other governor who resisted the panic, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem won with an even bigger margin: 26.8 points with 97% of the vote counted.) Note the sign on his podium as he addressed supporters at his campaign headquarters in the wake of his victory, with his cancer-survivor wife at his side:
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Because sane election laws and non-corrupt law enforcement eliminate the left’s path to power by fraud (or ability to retain it once they’ve stolen it).
Putting an exclamation point on the Florida red tsunami—Gubernatorial loser Charlie Crist’s vacated U.S. Congress FL District 13 seat flipped red to Anna Luna (R). Doing the happy dance!
Abortion. Lindsay Graham made it a national issue.
GOP has to get on board with the mail in ballots. Need to get mail in ballots to those who rarely care to vote but are conservative.
The dems have made voting a passive event. A large portion of their votes would never show up to a polling place for early voting or election day. Hence, the massive mail in ballot lead.
GOP has to do the same.
Get lost.
The final capstone was Gov. Ron DeSantis firing the corrupt Broward County supervisor of elections, a partisan hack Rat.
Wait she lost????
You sound like a real snot, unless I am missing something.
People who are basically ethical and honest will never beat liars and thieves at that game.
Right! Ron DeSantis shut down the voter fraud more than anyone else.
Yup
Ron DeSantis did not welcome the DOJ to help with local “election integrity” yesterday.
Flawed analysis. The REAL answer is American voters have become total idiots. The Republic is dead. And the mythical Republican Hispanic Republican voter exists solely
in Florida and a few border areas of Texas and in the minds of GOP strategists. As for Black Republicans, except for glaring exceptions like Walker, and a handful of talk show commentators, they are exactly what Kyndon Johnson predicted years ago.
Could it be because DeSantis doesn’t act like a nut-job?
“The final capstone was Gov. Ron DeSantis firing the corrupt Broward County supervisor of elections...”
Actually one step after that, Florida now has its own elections crime unit that investigates voter fraud and reports it the the state AG.
How many other states have that I don’t know but is suspect not many if any.
That’s exactly it.
Republicans didn’t fix the problem.
Rats cheated and won the most consequential election of our time, with no consequences.
Who thought they wouldn’t do it again?
No, she’s behind by about 3500 votes, but only 94% of the vote is counted so far. Too close to call.
No.
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